Mystery Radiation Detected ‘Across Europe’
November 12th, 2011Via: ABC News:
The hunt is on for the source of low level radiation detected in the atmosphere “across Europe” over the past weeks, nuclear officials said today.
Trace amounts of iodine-131, a type of radiation created during the operation of nuclear reactors or in the detonation of a nuclear weapon, were detected as early as three weeks ago by Austrian authorities and then two weeks ago by the Czech Republic’s State Office for Nuclear Safety. Today the International Atomic Energy Agency released a statement revealing similar detections had been made “in other locations across Europe.”
The IAEA said the current levels of iodine-131 are far too low to warrant a public health risk, but the agency still does not know the origin of the apparent leak and an official with the agency would not say where else it has been detected. Considering iodine-131 has a radioactive decay half-life of about eight days, continued detection means the leak occurred over a period of several days at least and is possibly ongoing.
The IAEA said it does not believe the radiation was left over from the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant in March and the Czech Republic’s State Office for Nuclear Safety said it was unlikely to have been caused by an incident at any nuclear plant’s core. A meltdown there, the Czech agency said, would have released several other radioactive isotopes in addition to iodine-131.
Hmm…I wonder if there are any secret (private?!) reactors in operation anywhere.
Hmm. such as, underground, perhaps.
Recently reading on the Chernobyl meltdown, that initially the Russian ‘authorities’ kept the news in black-out. It wasn’t until radiation detection alarms, mostly at other nuclear power plants, were going off all across Europe, before Russia finally admitted they were having a problem.
This is all juat part of the joys of living in the brave new world of thermonuclear technology. Ain’t it grand.
Wow, isn’t it amazing that 2 weeks this nuclear crap was detected across Europe. Oh well, if you felt sick two weeks ago you might have just found a cause 🙁 And if its not from Fuksuhima (that belching nuclear meltdown to this day), Why it must be Iran testing nuclear weapons!
ABC News and General Electric are connected, are they not? Same parent company? hmm.
I smell some cat shit here and it ain’t pretty at all. This “news” is CRAP. It stinks as untruth.
Why not report this Fukashima crap drifting across the U.S. as it has since March?
Something is wrong with this story and it sounds to me like fear mongering crap while the guns are being loaded for Iran.